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Saturday, 12 April 2014

On my Sainsbury's Easter Table

Sainsbury's recently asked if I would like a selection of
goodies to try for Easter. Of course I said yes, and I was given a choice of a
kid’s box, an adult’s box or a combo.

I plumped for the grown-ups version and was very excited
when a huge box turned up at the door. Now, I have to try these things before
Easter gets here, just so I know what I am writing about. And to be honest one
of the items didn’t even make it to the table, as the sell-by-date was quite soon,
so Disneyboi and I had to scoff these Taste the Difference mini Belgian chocolate hot cross buns.

They
were moist and delicious, not like regular hot cross buns, in that there was no
dried fruit, just delicious chocolate throughout. As you can tell by the
picture, these were eaten in a hurry!!

Next on to the bounty atop the table and first up was the
traditional all butter simnel cake. Now, I’m not a huge fan of simnel cake, but
my taste testers told me this was delicious and buttery as the name would
suggest. It’s got loads of fruit inside, made with ground almonds and has
marzipan balls on top representing the eleven apostles (apparently). As you can probably see from the picture above, my
balls became detached during transit, but then mines was sent via the mail, so
if you are buying or having delivered, the cake will be more delicately handled!

The cute little egglets above are wee Belgian chocolate (3 white
and 3 milk) truffles filled with an almond and hazelnut praline filling. Very
rich, so one at a time is plenty, but very worth it!

The big egg you can see is a Taste the Difference Belgian White
Chocolate Egg. It’s a hollow egg decorated with dark chocolate. I reviewed some
Taste the Difference white chocolate back at Christmas time, so I knew this
were going to be creamy and delicious and
I wasn’t wrong!

To wash this all of this down, I had lashings of tea (I’m a bit a tea
junkie) and the English Breakfast Fairtrade Fine Loose Leaf Tea I was sent was
very refreshing. No complaints there, I tend to make tea from bags, so having
loose leaf is always a bit special.

The adult portion of the Easter box was the mini bottle of
Rioja. I love my red wine and I have yet to try this to be honest. But I am reliably
informed that this rioja has spicy bramble flavours going on and a subtle vanilla
taste. Can’t wait to sample this soon!

And in the box also, was the bunting and paper plates you
can see. The bunting will come in handy when I go to my cousin's for our Easter
family get together. The paper plates are very cute and there is a whole range
to match these ‘Sunshine Happy Days’. I’m going to keep these for summer BBQ’s,
and get some matching napkins etc.

Overall, a lovely Easter selection from Sainsbury’s and I
hope I have inspired some of you in your purchases!

Disclosure Statement: I received the items in the box free
to try and was not expected to write a positive review. Any opinions expressed
are my own.